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camen design
Personal blog · camendesign.com/blogwebprogramming
camen design is a personal blog at camendesign.com about web and programming. Since 2008, 28 different Hacker News readers have linked it 36 times, most often “Serve html5-video (ogg/mp4), flash, QT, and WMP with only two video encodes”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link camendesign.com as an example of markup with no ids or classes, and recommend the author's Video for Everybody code page for HTML5 video with fallbacks.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Serve html5-video (ogg/mp4), flash, QT, and WMP with only two video encodes8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2009-06-20
- /2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-03-09
- NoNonsense Forum - No database, just RSS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-12-07
- Making the Ugly Elegant: Templating With DOM2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-04
- No Nonsense Forum2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-09
What Hacker News says?
Check out http://camendesign.com/ The last time I looked it had no ids nor classes.
Comment linking /
on “How to Center in CSS”Submitted RSS Is Dying, and You Should Be Very Worried as a story · 278 points
HN discussion> Okay, so on my screen that means 80% of the window is whitespace and it burns my eyes. background-color: black, I guess? Apart from calibrating the room lighting and monitor brightness, one can still have a dark background for the body but not for the wrapper that has max-size on it. E.g. http://camendesign.com/ here you would have white that burns your eyes if it was done without max-size, as is it's much better.…
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on “Medium is a poor choice for blogging”Submitted Microsoft, Please Stop This Madness as a story · 245 points
HN discussionExactly. I have an obsession with "optimized" markup, that means avoiding unnecessary elements, ids and classes. Let's not forget that all this stuff sits in markup and gets downloaded on each request. Even if that does not add up to much, I still want to have my code "clean". There is one particular site that inspires me: http://camendesign.com/ — take a look, not a single id or class.
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on “A Shocking Truth About CSS”Submitted It's Time for Server-Side Browsers as a story · 47 points
HN discussion> I really wish xhtml would have won in place of HTML/CSS. This makes me doubt that you understand what you are talking about. XHTML and HTML have exactly the same semantics. CSS has little to do with them (you can use CSS to style you XML documents if you wish so). With CSS3 and modern browsers you can pretty much avoid anything to HTML just for styling purposes. Heck, take a look at http://camendesign.com/ It's no…
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on “I’m too lazy to be a HTML developer”Submitted Serve html5-video (ogg/mp4), flash, QT, and WMP with only two video encodes as a story · 31 points
HN discussionMay I suggest Video for Everybody? http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody
Comment linking /code/video_for_everybody
on “Show HN: iPad port of my sheet music app Etude”Submitted RSS: A Reply (Author's follow up to "RSS Is Dying") as a story · 8 points
HN discussionIt looks like it only needs javascript for the flash fallback, and it wouldn't be too hard to put something in the video tag that would work as fallback for those without either html5 video or javascript. I think the only reason they didn't show this is because it's extra complexity for something that many people don't care about. For those that do care there's Kroc Camen's "Video for Everybody" http://camendesign.c…
Comment linking /code/video_for_everybody
on “Use html5 video tags in html with flash fallback for old browsers”Submitted A List of People Who Need to Stop Writing Software [2008] as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI haven't tried this, but it looks pretty easy to do both. At least for using flash for the the video features provided by html5 http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody
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on “Is Firefox Headed Towards A Massive Decline? Its Co-Founder Thinks So”Submitted The body element is already a wrapper. as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIt might work better if the URLs in the video tag didn't 404 http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody/video_for_ev... http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody/video_for_ev...
Comment linking /code/video_for_everybody/video_for_everybody.mp4
on “Serve html5-video (ogg/mp4), flash, QT, and WMP with only two video encodes”Submitted The Price That Cannot Be Bartered as a story · 5 points
HN discussionInterestingly you can deliver vorbis audio natively, via Java, and via Flash 10 (see https://launchpad.net/fogg ), so for audio you only need one format for 99% coverage. And despite that fact no-one talks about it, Vorbis is actually state of the art, competitive with both AAC and AAC-HE at their respective sweet spots but without the problem of AAC-HE degrading badly on decoders that only support AAC (e.g. Apple s…
Comment linking /code/video_for_everybody
on “HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight?”Submitted Making the Ugly Elegant: Templating With DOM as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI don't get targeting the iPhone yet featuring Flash on the home page. Your audience can play HTML5 or gracefully degrade to QT. It's about iPhone, but I can't see it on iPhone or iPad. Make pitch1.swf a .mp4 file, and use the embed stack here: http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody Try the second one from the bottom, w/o the Ogg lines.
Comment linking /code/video_for_everybody
on “Need feedback for my startup skanr.com please”Submitted NoNonsense Forum - No database, just RSS as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe author has changed the link. Here is the working one: http://camendesign.com/?200806291149
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on “List Of People Who Need To Stop Writing Software”Submitted No Nonsense Forum as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Centre and Layout Pages Without a Wrapper as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the World Could Solve the Vendor Prefix Problem in One Month as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Video For Everybody - HTML5 with Flash fallback as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making the Ugly Elegant: Templating With DOM as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making the Ugly Elegant: Templating With DOM as a story · 2 points
HN discussion- vt · 2011-09-13
Submitted I Don’t Want to Do This Any More as a story · 2 points
HN discussion Submitted NoNonsense Forum-free open source simple discussion forum as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Markdown Web as a story · 1 points
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